Danny Hillis, whose "background was in building supercomputers, - TopicsExpress



          

Danny Hillis, whose "background was in building supercomputers, the fastest computers in the world...wanted to build the slowest computer in the world instead of the fastest computer in the world. It would be a millennial clock and it would tick every year and bong once a century and the cuckoo would come out every millennium: this kind of poetic version of a large monument-scale icon to long-term thinking that people would travel to and visit and be inspired that there could be projects that take place over a millennial scale."
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 23:55:22 +0000

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